From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCHES] semaphore rewrite
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:36:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080227003605.GC5715@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
Here's a series of twelve patches to introduce down_killable(). I expect
the first ten to be uncontroversial, and easy to apply. The last two
... I'm still testing. More testers would be welcome, particularly
people who have performance test-suites they wouldn't want to see regress.
The way I go about introducing down_killable is to replace all the
carefully hand-tuned assembler with a generic C implementation. One of
the annoying things about this is that the header file is in
asm/semaphore.h instead of linux/semaphore.h. I tackle this by removing
all the obsolete inclusions of asm/semaphore.h (around 100 of them).
In order for that to work, I actually need to add a couple in places
where they were being implicitly included.
Then I replace the per-arch implementations with a generic one. All the
<asm/semaphore.h> files become a one-line include of linux/sempahore.h.
Then all remaining users in the tree are converted to use
linux/semaphore.h.
I add 'removal of asm/semaphore.h' to features-removal to not inflict
extra pain on Andrew during this process.
So, to recap:
Patches 1 - 2: Add missing includes
Patches 3 - 10: Remove obsolete includes (split up by top-level directory)
Patch 11: Generic semaphore implementation
Patch 12: Switch remaining users to linux/semaphore.h
I hope this split causes the least amount of pain.
--
Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next reply other threads:[~2008-02-27 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-27 0:36 Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2008-02-28 6:33 ` [PATCH 01/12] Fix quota.h includes Matthew Wilcox
2008-02-28 6:33 ` [PATCH 02/12] Add semaphore.h to kernel_lock.c Matthew Wilcox
2008-02-28 6:33 ` [PATCH 03/12] arch: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h Matthew Wilcox
2008-02-28 6:33 ` [PATCH 04/12] net: " Matthew Wilcox
2008-02-28 6:33 ` [PATCH 05/12] drivers: " Matthew Wilcox
2008-02-28 6:33 ` [PATCH 06/12] fs: " Matthew Wilcox
2008-02-28 6:33 ` [PATCH 07/12] include: " Matthew Wilcox
2008-02-28 6:33 ` [PATCH 08/12] kernel: " Matthew Wilcox
2008-02-28 6:33 ` [PATCH 09/12] lib: " Matthew Wilcox
2008-02-28 6:33 ` [PATCH 10/12] security: " Matthew Wilcox
2008-02-28 6:34 ` [PATCH 11/12] Generic semaphore implementation Matthew Wilcox
2008-02-28 6:34 ` [PATCH 12/12] Convert asm/semaphore.h users to linux/semaphore.h Matthew Wilcox
2008-02-28 7:18 ` [PATCH 11/12] Generic semaphore implementation Ingo Molnar
2008-02-29 0:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-02-29 0:50 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-29 1:43 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-29 5:30 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-02-29 17:42 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2008-02-29 19:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-29 2:00 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-02-29 2:10 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-29 5:32 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-02-29 6:43 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-02-29 16:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 1:57 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-29 5:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-02-29 2:37 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-29 2:47 ` [PATCH] semaphore: remove likely/unlikely annotations Harvey Harrison
2008-03-03 14:54 ` [PATCH 11/12] Generic semaphore implementation Matthew Wilcox
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